Dodgy Amazon sellers ._________________I am a Star Wars fan. That doesn't mean that I hate or love Jar Jar. That doesn't mean I hate or love Lucas, or agree or disagree 100% with him. That doesn't mean I prefer the PT over the OT, or vice versa. That doesn't mean I hate the EU, or even love all of it (or even read all of it). These are not prerequisites. Being a man is not a prerequisite. Being a geek is not a prerequisite. The only prerequisite is that I love something about Star Wars. I am a Star Wars fan.

Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 9:13 am

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1337JediMaster

Joined: 02 Sep 2012Posts: 688Location: Florida

Every time I put a ^ to comment on the post above, rather than quoting.......... I start a new page....._________________Mara: "Not many people Dare to hug me"
Lando: "That leaves more of you for me then!"

"Sure I can't move a rock with my mind, but, boy can I make that rock think its been moved."

Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 10:04 am

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JainaSoloMaster

Joined: 04 Sep 2012Posts: 577Location: In front of my laptop

Ugh! This is the perfect place to vent about my beyond awful day at school.

As I said yesterday the vacation is over and it's time for me to go back to school. The first thing that ruined my day is that I have been placed in the same class as my arch nemesis () and my ex boyfriend (so you can only guess how awkward that is ). The second thing is my new English teacher.
The first thing I thought at the end of the class was: "Miss, what do you think this place is? A high school or a military school?!"
We are not allowed to do the following there:
-Compliment her on her clothes
-Ask how her weekend was
-Go to the bathroom or leave the classroom for whatever reason
-Slouch
-Check the time on our phones
-Ask to change seats
-Get below 80% on a test otherwise we FAIL!
I can almost swear she grinned deviously when we exchanged horrified expressions!
And at the end of the day I didn't even see my best friend Jonathan, who arrived as a new student at my school today. _________________We fight, we earn, we never learn. And through it all, the hero falls...
~Heroes, Mika~

Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 11:55 am

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CerrineaMaster

Joined: 09 Jun 2009Posts: 1491

Is this a college? And I'm pretty sure she can't do several of those things, like not allow you to go to the bathroom, or flunk you if you get below an 80. If the school doesn't have a forced curve, I'm pretty sure she just can't arbitrarily have one.

Seriously though, I'd just bail on that class, get a refund and find another one taught by someone else. Oh yeah and report her._________________Roqoo Depot co-founder.

Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 12:09 pm

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JainaSoloMaster

Joined: 04 Sep 2012Posts: 577Location: In front of my laptop

Nope this isn't college it's high school. She won't allow us to go to the bathoom cause she says we're supposed to before the class. Luckily she does't flunk us but she gives us detention. She said: "Last year, everyone in my class got 80% or higher for English at the end of the year, I'm going to make sure you do too!"
And the principal AND my dad actually LIKES this teacher!! _________________We fight, we earn, we never learn. And through it all, the hero falls...
~Heroes, Mika~

Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 12:16 pm

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1337JediMaster

Joined: 02 Sep 2012Posts: 688Location: Florida

Agreed a complaint is in order! That list makes for one bad teacher, but the first two points just makes for a rude and nasty person in general! Bail and refund! If we are talking high school one phone call from a parent can make any change a possibility._________________Mara: "Not many people Dare to hug me"
Lando: "That leaves more of you for me then!"

"Sure I can't move a rock with my mind, but, boy can I make that rock think its been moved."

Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 12:34 pm

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JainaSoloMaster

Joined: 04 Sep 2012Posts: 577Location: In front of my laptop

Ugh, I wish! As I said: my dad actually approves of her teaching method!

Just wish me luck guys! Tomorrow I'm gonna try to ask her if I can at least move two seats to the front, because I can't see on the board, even with my glasses on. If I don't give an update on my mission in two days you'll know I decided climbing Mount Everest would be easier and more successful. _________________We fight, we earn, we never learn. And through it all, the hero falls...
~Heroes, Mika~

Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 2:00 am

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HogyMaster

Joined: 14 Dec 2011Posts: 951Location: Nar Shaddaa

JainaSolo wrote:

Ugh, I wish! As I said: my dad actually approves of her teaching method!

Just wish me luck guys! Tomorrow I'm gonna try to ask her if I can at least move two seats to the front, because I can't see on the board, even with my glasses on. If I don't give an update on my mission in two days you'll know I decided climbing Mount Everest would be easier and more successful.

Not trying to get your hopes up, but I had a similar experience with my high school teacher once. The first day my class met him, he threatened us with things, shout at us for no reason and things like that.

Turned out latter that he was just acting. It was a bluff, a psychological thing to have an authority over a bunch of 16y.o. kids for a few weeks.

He pulled "a reverse Palpatine" on us.

Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 3:15 am

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Dog-Poop_WalkerMaster

Joined: 28 Jan 2012Posts: 1481Location: Soul of Cinder

I remember some of that stuff from highschool. The no bathroom thing is ludicrous. No adult ever has to be put in that situation. Even when getting arrested, police officers will let you use the bathroom!

Some kids are just punks and it can't be helped, but even most of the ones that act out do so because school is not engaging to them on their level and that is the failure of a teacher. Unfortunately school before college is less about actual learning and more about training kids to the process of having to submit to authority figures, because that is what you will have to do for pretty much everyone once you become an adult.

The only good thing is that the judgement of your peers that matters so much in school means just about nothing afterwards._________________The spirit can die when the force that's crushing it is great enough. By raining bullets down on the silent faces, already turned away from the world, you thought you could destroy the face of our truth. But we have faith in a different force. That hopeless hope is what sustains us now. My comrades are more numerous than your bullets, and more patient than your executioners.

Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 6:34 am

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JainaSoloMaster

Joined: 04 Sep 2012Posts: 577Location: In front of my laptop

Hogy, I think you were right about the whole psychological thing. Today she was't nearly as nasty as she was yesterday! I think she just put up the whole "don't you dare mess with me" act to let us know who is in charge.

And as for my little situation, I didn't even have to ask her! I subtly moved two seats to the front without her even noticing! I decided it was easier than asking her or climbing Mount Everest!_________________We fight, we earn, we never learn. And through it all, the hero falls...
~Heroes, Mika~

Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 2:22 pm

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ReepicheepMaster

Joined: 05 Feb 2008Posts: 7613Location: Sailing into the unknown

@Jaina: I had a nightmare chemistry teacher last semester. Basically if you were good at sports or science, you got on his good side. I'm not good at either. If you were doing something wrong during an experiment, he would broadcast it to the entire room. He loved to make you feel like an idiot and embarass you in front of the class. And he rarely helped you with anything; he just offered unhelpful pep talks like "Man up, and learn some chemistry!" He assaulted the kids with poor grades with questions he knew they couldn't answer (and every last one of them was a good kid; they weren't slackers, they just weren't good at chemistry). And, yes, he did the no bathroom thing too (unless of course you were on of his straight A or sports jock pets). He was a jerk.

Just remember: suffering builds character. _________________
Where sky and water meet,
Where the waves grow sweet,
Doubt not, Reepicheep,
To find all you seek,
There is the utter east.

Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 2:34 pm

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JainaSoloMaster

Joined: 04 Sep 2012Posts: 577Location: In front of my laptop

Thanks Reep! It feels nice to hear about other bad experiences with nasty teachers. I'm so glad I'm not the only one who has/had a teacher from hell!
My maths teacher from last year was exactly the opposite: he was this weird emo guy in his early fourties who had the complexion of Rowan Atkinson. All he practically did was give us the work, explain the new stuff one or two times then leave us alone and go outside for a smoke break...the whole darn period! The slackers obviously saw this as a chance to make a mess and go crazy giving us (the nerds) no time to finish our work! Thank goodness he moved last year and isn't teaching at our school anymore!_________________We fight, we earn, we never learn. And through it all, the hero falls...
~Heroes, Mika~

Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 2:53 pm

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Taral-DLOSMaster

Joined: 23 Nov 2010Posts: 1943Location: Ontario, Canada

I recommend making a game of it. In both high school and university my friends and I had much fun finding weird traits and ticks of various teachers and professors and joking about them.

We had a teacher would used the word "Okay" way too much. Okay, like, 2-3 times in a sentence, okay?

In uni we had a prof who did three big things: 1- she compulsively adjusted her head-scarf, 2- she used the word "salient" instead of "important", and 3- she always used the phrase "in terms of", in times where it was stupid and redundant (e.g. "You'll need a pen, in terms of writing." What else would I need my pen for?)

It can make the time pass quicker and more humorously if you and a cadre of your friends/classmates know about the trait and smile about it.

It's not nice, admittedly. A lot of people can't control those things. But when your teacher/prof is a pain, it helps._________________"I'm...from Earth."

We had a teacher would used the word "Okay" way too much. Okay, like, 2-3 times in a sentence, okay?

My middle school maths teacher always did this!

My gripe: Almost freaked out when someone told me my school is burning down. Now I despise people who make a mountain out of a mole hill. Something (apparently it was lighting) caused two classrooms to burn down, not the whole flipping school! Still, it's a loss... _________________We fight, we earn, we never learn. And through it all, the hero falls...
~Heroes, Mika~